Two mistakes here….one….the idea that ANY sports reporter is a legitimate reporter is stretching a definition to its limit.

Two: That we have allowed social media to do anything other than confuse issues.

That any journalist who, while covering his or her beat, accepted and expected, to be fed free by his or her beat subject, could then be called a legitimate reporter is amazing…and inaccurate to put it mildly.
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True journalism died with the advent of the 24/7 365 news networks. The news reporters were under such stress to fill all that time that they began to report anything from whatever source derived. Social Media is merely a convenient and easy source, whether it is true or false is secondary, it fills time and space.

Some days you have to ask yourself: do I want to I run down this garbage, or do I want emails and tweets from morons who don’t know its garbage, but make up a surprisingly large and active portion of my readership.